Of storytellers and storytellers

 

 There are storytellers and there are storytellers.

Unfortunately, I see my self as the former than the latter. Every time I tell a story to The Husband, my family, my friends, I often stammer, stumble and fall flat on my face in my attempts to deliver a perfect engaging story. You could say I am one of those people, who fare better in weaving stories in the written form, an art where one has time to think and properly organize thoughts. Maybe this is why I was nominated by Platetrotter Radhina for the Food Stories Award (Check out more details at http://foodstoriesblog.com/food-stories-award/)

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Project 30: Modern Day Life Journals

Here's to keeping all the memories in tact. (image from abeautifulrippleeffect.com)

My memory isn’t as sharp as I want it to be. If you ask me what I was doing and what I was feeling the moment before I reached the top of the stage on my university graduation, I would give you a blank stare because I hardly remember anything. And to think that university graduation was barely 10 years ago. I’m definitely not an old lady with a memory chomping virus in my head. Sadly, I learned to train my brain to declutter and purge it of old memories: sounds, sights, textures, smells, tastes and feelings. Unfortunately, I did not get to save quite a number of memories in video, in pictures or in writing. So now, all of those memories are now gone, pushed off the cliffs of oblivion…

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Be still my heart.

Was I ready?!?

I was honored to be invited to the Dessert Comes First Anniversary Party by food writer extraordinaire Lori Baltazar last April 9. I knew there would be food…a LOT of good food, so I prepared. I created enough space in my tummy for ALL the food. But little did I know that my heart also needed some priming…

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